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On June 13, 2016, the Mexican Service of Administration and Disposition of Assets published an announcement in the Diario Oficial containing the public tender for the last two state-owned sugar mills.

Mexico establishing tariff rate quotas (TRQ) for the import of live cattle for feeding purposes, fresh, chilled, and frozen beef; and paddy, husked brow, milled, other and broken rice.

Ecuador’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Aquaculture and Fisheries on May 26, 2016, issued Resolution 114/2016.

FAS office in Ecuador provided support for three workshops on the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) food products held on September 28, 29 and 30, 2015.

Agriculture has always played a critical role in Brazil’s economy, serving as a primary source of revenue and central generator of employment.

Graphic illustrating the total export of U.S. agricultural products to Mexico, including the total value and top 5 commodities.

Corn production is likely to increase slightly in marketing year (MY) 2016/17 (October/September) to 24.2 MMT, mostly due higher planted area than initially anticipated...

The federal government announced the intention to eliminate the MFN tariffs on a long list of imported food items to be used as ingredients by domestic food manufacturing companies.

On June 7, 2016, the Secretariat of Economy (SE) published in the Diario Oficial (Federal Register) the final resolution on the anti-dumping investigation against imported U.S. apples.

The 2015/2016 coffee harvest is expected to reach over 1,879,000 60kg bags, down 13 percent from the initial forecast.

Tomato production for marketing year 2016/17 is estimated at 2.9 million metric tons (MMT), slightly higher than the previous marketing year.

For calendar year (CY) 2016, Post revises production down to 640,000 metric tons (MT) for apples and 580,000 MT for fresh pears.